The Azure Podcast

Santosh Somayajula, a Principal Product Manager in Azure, breaks down the new Copilot for Azure service which is currently in Private Preview in the Azure Portal. Using this feature, administrators and management can perform operations in the Portal using simple verbal commands instead of navigating the UI.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode485.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gqv-qOOoK28

Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/copilot/overview

 https://aka.ms/MSCopilotforAzurePreviewRequest

Other updates:

General Availability: Azure Virtual Network encryption | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: ExpressRoute guided portal experience for multi-site resiliency | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General Availability: Azure MySQL Import feature for Azure Database for MySQL Single to Flexible Server migrations | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure 

Public Preview: Circuit Breaker in Azure API Management | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure  

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-topology/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/mount-azure-storage-as-a-local-share-in-app-service-linux-now-supports-nfs/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-continuous-model-monitoring-in-azure-machine-learning/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-api-center-features/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-new-major-version-of-durable-functions-extension/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-outbound-type-migration-in-aks/

Sean Klein joins Evan, Sujit, and Cale to talk about the Production LiveSite Review (PLR) process used by Azure Engineering for modern incident analysis and learnings.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode484.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/EsRrxguRn2Y

Resources:

How Complex Systems Fail

Etsy Engineering | Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture

Other updates:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/quickstart-create-and-run-load-test

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-testing/how-to-parameterize-load-tests#secrets

Azure Cloud Solution Architects Elena Krasteva and Sabine Blair help us understand what the Azure VMWare Solution is all about and how the Landing Zone Accelerator helps make it easier for customers looking to migrate VMWare workloads to Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode483.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Onj876JxOaw

Resources:

1) Product page: https://aka.ms/avs 

2) LinkedIn: (20) Azure VMware Solution Pros | Groups | LinkedIn

3) Well Architected Workload Guidance: https://aka.ms/avswafdocs 

4) Landing Zone Accelerator: https://aka.ms/avsaccelerator

4) TechCommunity Blog: Azure Migration and Modernization Blog - Microsoft Community Hub

5) Learn Modules: Run VMware resources on Azure VMware Solution - Training | Microsoft Learn

6) Discovery Assessment: Azure VMware Solution assessment calculations in Azure Migrate - Azure Migrate | Microsoft Learn

Other updates:

Microsoft puts Azure Quantum Elements to work

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/microsoft-puts-azure-quantum-elements-to-work/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-spring-apps-enterprise-is-now-eligible-for-azure-savings/ba-p/4021532

Cale, Evan and Sujit discuss the often-overlooked Network Watcher service in Azure and how it can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting and logging of network operations in your VNETs.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode482.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/CYLtFrbXGck

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/network-watcher/network-watcher-overview

Other updates:

Application Insights Availability Tests TLS 1.3 Enablement | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Standard and High-Performance VPN Gateway SKUs will be retired on 30 September 2025 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally Available: Azure Chaos Studio supports new faults for Service Bus | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Store and manage medical imaging data with Azure Data Lake Storage (Preview) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-free-sql-managed-instance/

Cale and Sujit discuss the new Fleet Manager service which allows customers to better manage groups of AKS clusters and perform updates, deployments and network access.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode481.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/mpUfpRtqnEE

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kubernetes-fleet/overview

https://github.com/Azure/fleet

Other updates:

Public Preview: Accelerated logs in Azure Database for MySQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server, enhanced disaster recovery features | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally Available: Azure Functions support on Apple Silicon Macs | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft and Oracle announce that Oracle Database@Azure is now generally available | Microsoft Azure Blog

Mark Eisenberg joins Cale and Sujit to dissect the Azure-related updates announced at the Ignite Conference in November 2023.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode480.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/bbt4wTjo7G4

Resources:

https://news.microsoft.com/ignite-2023-book-of-news/

Mark Russinovich - Inside AI Innovations

Today the team chat to Keith Howling, a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, on the topic of Platform Engineering with Radius, an open source app deployment engine.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode479.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/JWCaXfTf77A

Resources:

Radius:

• RadApp
• Introducing Radius: A new open-source application platform for cloud-native apps

Other news:

• General availability: Rate limit rules for Application Gateway web application firewall
• Export cost using focus
• Azure support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 will end by 31 October 2024
• Experiment templates now available in Azure Chaos Studio
• General availability: Start and stop load testing faults in Azure Chaos Studio
• General availability: Azure Functions supports .NET 8 in the isolated worker model
• App Service end-to-end encryption for Linux multi-tenant (preview)
• Azure Monitor Logs archive provides up to 12 years of retention

The team catches up with Nithya Sivam and Joshua Min who explain how Azure is democratizing access to the self-help content accessible in the Azure Portal. The Help API makes it easier to integrate this self-help into your own workflow.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode478.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Depmijm4YUg

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/help/?view=rest-help-2023-09-01-preview

Other updates:

Realize the full potential of your cloud investment with Azure optimization

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/realize-the-full-potential-of-your-cloud-investment-with-azure-optimization/

Building for the future: The enterprise generative AI application lifecycle with Azure AI

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-for-the-future-the-enterprise-generative-ai-application-lifecycle-with-azure-ai/

Join Microsoft at Azure Day & KubeCon North America 2023 in Chicago!

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/join-microsoft-at-azure-day-amp-kubecon-north-america-2023-in/ba-p/3958610

Azure Elastic SAN updates: Snapshots, Security, and Usability | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Preview: Azure Container Storage in AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Application Gateway IPv6 support | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure 

General Availability: Azure Advisor recommendation improves the reliability of Azure Disks with Zone Redundant Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Software Engineers Ian Jensen and Michael Litman from Microsoft's ISE group, explain the other 'clouds' in Azure. They dive into the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 suite and explain the use-cases for each of them and how you can use low-code or high-code to take advantage of these clouds without having to worry about specific resources in Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode477.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/9EAl_tCAoMs

Resources:

• Power Platform Terraform Provider: https://aka.ms/PowerPlatTerraformQuickstarts
• SolutionOps Playbook: https://playbook.microsoft.com
• Power Platform Pipelines: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/alm/pipelines
• ALM Accelerator for Power Platform: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/guidance/alm-accelerator/overview
• Updated ERP Development Experience: https://aka.ms/ERPDevDeploy , then https://aka.ms/ERPDevConfig
• ERP Git guidance: https://aka.ms/XppGit

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-update-channel-for-basic-standard-and-premium-caches/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-builtin-azure-monitor-alerts-for-azure-site-recovery/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-bastion-developer-public-preview/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-default-rule-set-21-for-regional-waf-with-application-gateway/

Balaji Sankaran, General Manager of Azure HDInsight, joins us to share the latest announcement from HDInsight - an updated, managed HDInsight service that runs on AKS, giving a better experience for hosting opensource analytics workloads in the cloud.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode476.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/RiQzpkZeT9c

Resources:

HD Insight on AKS:

• Manage your big data needs with HDInsight on AKS
• Enterprise scale open-source analytics on containers (Video)
• Get started with HDInsights on AKS
• Get in touch - Ask HDInsight

Other news:

• Announcing Microsoft Playwright Testing: Scalable end-to-end testing for modern web apps
• The Microsoft Azure Incubations Team launches Radius, a new open application platform for the cloud

Alice Gibbons, Customer Success Engineer and Kendall Roden, Product Manager, both from Diagrid, talk about the companies SaaS offering that allows easier monitoring and management of DAPR installations on AKS and any Kubernetes service.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode475.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/iIjUs1Z-g4I

Resources:

Conductor links:

5 min intro: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor#video-section

book a demo: https://www.diagrid.io/conductor

Run Dapr in production with Confidence webinar: https://youtu.be/88VJZ0K09PM?feature=shared

Other Updates:

A Program Manager in the Azure Chaos Studio team, Vikram Raju joins us to give us a refresher on the service and what latest updates have just been released.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode474.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/UJYhjFoM25U

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/testing/mission-critical-deployment-testing

Other updates:

https://aka.ms/AIR/VVTQ-J98 - this the public-facing Azure Incident Retrospective that covers the Australia East outage.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-web-pubsub-support-for-socketio/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-malware-scanning-in-defender-for-storage-2/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-timeline-view-for-azure-monitor-alerts/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/openai-whisper-model-in-preview-in-azure-openai-service-and-azure-ai-speech/

Vishwas Lele, CTO of Applied Information Sciences, talks to us about Azure Arc. He explains the history of the service, how it helps you develop, operate and secure your applications anywhere, and why it is deserves more attention from customers, even if you don't use Azure today.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode473.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/WTSoAThTJuI

Resources:

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/managing-and-governing-hybrid-environments-with-azure-arc/hybrid-and-multicloud-resource-management-with-azure-arc

https://azurearcjumpstart.io/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/r-word-starting-appear-cloud-conversations-its-time-set-vishwas-lele

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/

Other updates:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/announcing-javascript-sdk-v4/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-configure-customermanaged-keys-on-existing-cosmos-db-accounts/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-use-azure-key-vault-to-securely-store-and-retrieve-access-key-when-mounting-azure-storage-as-a-local-sha/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/configure-load-testing-in-your-cicd-pipeline-from-azure-portal/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-sensitive-data-protection-for-application-gateway-web-application-firewall-logs/

https://github.com/cncf/toc/pull/1168

Farzad Sunavala, Senior PM in the Azure Cognitive Search team, reveals the details of the new Vector Search feature. He explains some of the concepts of Vector search and how developers can easily take advantage of this in their Open AI apps.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode472.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/jAvuVTUNZ2k

Resources:

https://aka.ms/IntroducingVectorSearch

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-app-configuration-public-preview-release-of-snapshots-feature/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-container-apps-supports-additional-tcp-ports/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-azure-container-apps-jobs/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-worker-cold-start-improvements/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-azure-functions-net-8-support-in-linux-plans/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-autoupgrade-scheduled-maintenance-for-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-azure-sql-updates-for-lateaugust-2023/

We talk to Steve Selleny, a Global Partner Development Manager at Microsoft, about the AI and ML trends he has noticed in Financial Services ISVs. 

Steve has been working in the technology sector for over 21 years in various roles including software development, systems architecture, consulting, sales, and partner management. For the past two years, he has been working with Financial Services Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to build and market solutions on the Microsoft Cloud that drive digital transformation for customers.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode471.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/6WDlqR34M48

Resources:

https://news.microsoft.com/2023/06/29/moodys-and-microsoft-develop-enhanced-risk-data-analytics-research-and-collaboration-solutions-powered-by-generative-ai/ 

Other updates:

Strengthening Your Defenses: Simulation Testing for Azure DDoS Protection - Microsoft Community Hub

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/public-preview-ratelimit-rules-for-application-gateway-web

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-terraform-support-for-azure-cosmos-db

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/generally-available-durable-functions-for-python-v2

https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/general-availability-99th-percentile-latency-metric-in-azure

Upgrade to App Service Environment v3 today and unlock new capabilities | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/cloud-services-retirement-announcement/

Evan and Sujit cover a whole bunch of updates to various Azure services such as AKS, ACA, Functions, VMs, PostgerSQL, VNETs and Storage.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode470.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/eGsnmw5WjHI

 Resources:

VMs

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-subscription-restore-for-azure-virtual-machines/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/introducing-new-performance-tiers-for-azure-managed-lustre/ba-p/3900329

Storage

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-elastic-san-updates-private-endpoints-shared-volumes/

Functions

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-sdk-type-bindings-in-azure-functions/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-application-insights-integration-for-the-azure-functions-net-worker/

AKS/ACA

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-127-support-in-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-key-vault-references-for-secrets-in-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-secrets-volume-mounts-for-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-session-affinity-for-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-init-containers-in-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-cross-origin-resource-sharing-cors-in-azure-container-apps/

PostgreSQL

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-storage-autogrow-online-disk-scaling-for-azure-database-for-postgresql-flexible-server/

Major Version Upgrade of a flexible server - Azure portal | Microsoft Learn

VNET

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-vnet-flow-logs/

Azure and Data technical specialist Ian Pike, joins us on the Podcast to give us a primer on Fabric and what is means for customers that use various data-related services on Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode469.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/k0DkkVkfw2o

Resources:

• Announcement for Fabric including the key dates and how to enable : Introducing Microsoft Fabric and Copilot in Microsoft Power BI | Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI
• Fabric Getting started : Get started with Microsoft Fabric - Training | Microsoft Learn
• Happy Paths : Introducing the end-to-end scenarios in Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Fabric Blog | Microsoft Fabric
• Cube in a Cube (2 Microsoft Employees with some great content, who are part of the Fabric Customer Advisory Team) : (488) Guy in a Cube - YouTube

• Endjin : (488) endjin - YouTube
• Advancing Analytics :  (488) Advancing Fabric - YouTube

Other updates:

Scale generative AI with new Azure AI infrastructure advancements and availability | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/azure-customer-stories-ai

Chaos Studio updates 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-supports-new-faults-for-app-service-and-virtual-machines/ 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-is-now-available-in-southeast-asia-region/ 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-chaos-studio-has-userassigned-managed-identity-and-custom-role-assignment/

Load Testing Updates

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-for-up-to-24-hours/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-create-and-manage-tests-and-test-runs-using-azure-cli/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-load-testing-run-tests-with-100000-virtual-users/

This week Cale talks to Radhika Bollineni, Engineering Manager for Wordpress on App Service, about how to easily create WordPress sites in your Azure subscription to publish your content, using just a few clicks in the Marketplace.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode468.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/rO8xicLKKow

Documentation: https://github.com/Azure/wordpress-linux-appservice

Marketplace offering: https://ms.portal.azure.com/#create/WordPress.WordPress

Other links and resources referred to in this episode:

• Microsoft Dev Box is now generally available
• Announcing Azure Managed Lustre for your HPC and AI workloads
• Microsoft Cost Management updates—June 2023
• Supercharge your skills with Microsoft CLX tracks for Azure
• Explore the benefits of Azure OpenAI Service with Microsoft Learn

After talking to Ryan Berry a little while back about OneStream's journey to Azure, the team catches back up with him to hear about how their architecture will evolve in the future to be more Cloud Native. In addition, they discuss the challenges of rearchitecting a pre-existing product when you cannot afford the have dual stacks running at the same time.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode467.mp3

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D4x7jDjs-8

Resources

Corporate Performance Management Software | OneStream Software

Links to updates mentioned at the top of the show

• Azure AD is becoming Microsoft Entra ID
• Public preview: Ingest events from Azure Event Hubs to Azure Monitor Logs
• General availability: Azure Data Explorer adds support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and CosmosDB SQL external tables
• Azure cross-region Load Balancer is now generally available
• Public preview: Azure Virtual Network encryption

Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to reason over their own data. 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode466.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/nDcIWvHa43s

Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/overview

Other updates:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-registry-cache

Evan and Sujit talk to Principal PM Ramya Oruganti about the release of Functions as a first class managed service on Azure Container Apps. She tells us how this opens up possibilities for event-driven applications on ACA with full support for KEDA, Bindings, Dapr, GitHub Actions etc.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode465.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/0XR0PJuB_ko

Resources:

https://github.com/Azure/azure-functions-on-container-apps

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-functions-for-cloud-native-microservices-public-preview/ba-p/3826800

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-deploy-container-apps?tabs=acr%2Cbash&pivots=programming-language-csharp

Other updates:

Understanding Service Health communications for Azure vulnerabilities | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Assess impact of service retirements workbook template in Azure Advisor | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cale and Russell talk to the Microsoft Program Manager for DevBox and Azure Deployment Environments, Sagar Chandra Reddy Lankala, about how Azure Deployment Environments can enable rapid deployment of on-demand dev/test environments while providing governance, security and cost management - plus some more updates from Microsoft Build 2023!

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode464.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/IsgQVMIkhRc

Sagar's links:

• GA blog - https://aka.ms/ade-ga-blog
• Sign up for Terraform support - https://aka.ms/ade-terraform-signup
• LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sagarchandrareddy

Other updates mentioned in this episode:

• Public preview: Introducing NGads V620-series VMs optimized for cloud gaming | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
• Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Kusto Emulator on Linux | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
• Explore the latest features for Datadog—An Azure Native ISV Service
• Microsoft Cost Management updates—May 2023
• Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available. Repeat, Azure Linux
• Azure OpenAI Service - Documentation, quickstarts, API reference - Azure Cognitive Services | Microsoft Learn
• Azure Deployment Environments | Microsoft Azure
• About Azure App Spaces | Microsoft Learn
• Introducing Azure API Center for Centralized API Discovery and Governance (microsoft.com)
• GitHub Advanced Security for Azure Devops

The team catches up with Ryan Berry to learn about OneStream's journey to Azure. They talk about both the benefits and pitfalls and why Ryan is happy OneStream in running in Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode463.mp3

 YouTube: https://youtu.be/Um4rg4eKRuU

Resources: 

https://www.onestream.com/blog/onestream-splash-dc-wows-attendees-with-ai-powered-cpm-capabilities/

Other updates:

Public Preview – Data Migration for Oracle | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Build 2023: New Azure App Service plans fuel greater choice and savings | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure 

https://news.microsoft.com/build-2023-book-of-news/

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9265960

Jorge Palma, the Lead PM for Azure Kubernetes Services, talks to Evan and Sujit about the Long-Term Support (LTS) version Kubernetes which provides support for 2 years. He tells us how this model works and who may benefit from this option.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode462.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/zmrOegThyCE

Resources: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-kubernetes-upgrades-and-long-term-support/ba-p/3782789

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2023/04/18/join-microsoft-at-kubecon-and-cloudnativecon-europe-2023/

Russell and Sujit talk to Dave Salvator, Director of Accelerated Computing Products at NVIDIA, about a new offering in Azure via the Marketplace that will make it easier to get NVIDIA's software onto the Azure platform to make it easier for customers to take advantage of their GPU accelerated instances.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode461.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/HcAjq8jAzqo

 Resources:

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-collaborates-with-microsoft-to-accelerate-enterprise-ready-generative-ai

Other Updates:

Public preview: Azure Cold Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Always Serve for Azure Traffic Manager | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Inbound ICMPv4 pings are now supported on Azure Load Balancer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Azure Monitor Agent supports Linux Hardening for CIS and SELinux | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Distro for ASP.NET Core, JavaScript (Node.js), Python | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Transforming containerized applications with Azure Container Storage—now in preview | Azure Blog | Microsoft Azure

Cale, Evan and Sujit talk to Neha Rathod, Garv Jasuja, Akshay Gupta and Vijay Chiluveru, who are Graduate Students at Penn State University that have developed a wireless monitoring device to detect cardiac arrest and alert the caretakers. We talk to them about how they developed the product and how Azure helped speed up the development.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode460.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/VQAVhLpzKCE

Resources:

https://alertheart.com/

https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/engineering-graduate-students-named-finalists-microsoft-imagine-cup/

Other updates:

Microsoft Build May 23 - 25 https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home

Public preview: Rolling Upgrades with MaxSurge for Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Evan and Sujit talk to Allison Jones, a Group PM for Azure's AIOps System Team. She gives us insights into how Microsoft uses AI/ML to analyze various signals from Azure to provide actionable information about the state of the platform.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode459.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ousa2qWQEiQ

Resources: 

Blogs

Advancing Azure Service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps

Advancing failure prediction and mitigation – introducing Narya

Advancing safe deployment with AIOps – introducing Gandalf

Advancing anomaly detection with AIOps – introducing AiDice 

Webinars

AIOps webinar @ Harvard in Tech Seattle by Dongmei Zhang, Marcus Fontoura, Murali Chintalapati, and Igal Figlin

AIOps Distinguished Industry Lecture by Mark Russinovich at Carneige Mellon University

In addition, the customer can learn more about cutting edge AIOps solutions across industry through participation of Cloud Intelligence / AIOps workshop. 

Other updates:

Generally available: Azure Monitor alerts now suggests signals to alert on | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Advisor VM/VMSS right-sizing recommendations with custom lookback period | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-serverless-sql-for-azure-databricks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-azure-event-hubs-dedicated-selfserve-scalable-clusters-for-mission-critical-kafka-amqp-and-https-workload/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ebsv5-and-ebdsv5-nvmeenabled-vm-sizes/

Elizabeth Graham, a Senior Software Engineer in the Commercial Software Engineering group at Microsoft, talks to Evan and Sujit about the various options we have for integrating external systems with Azure. She talks about how messages, files and other input forms can be ingested and processed with some of the services available in Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode458.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/NekugFAh2x8

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/integration/integration-start-here

Data Mapper

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-service-fabric-91-third-refresh-release-2/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-crossregion-service-endpoints-for-azure-storage/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azurefilessmblinuxad/

The team talks to Ayush Agarwal, Davide Mauri, and Sean Leonard to learn about how the open-source Data API Builder can be used to quickly and easily create CRUD APIs on top of multiple database platforms in Azure for use in many types of applications and languages.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode457.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/pgvMa3tFg7s

Resources: 

https://aka.ms/dab

Other updates:

Public Preview: In-place scaling for enterprise caches | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Hotpatch now available for Windows Server VMs on Azure with desktop experience | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Node Resource Group (NRG) lockdown | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-kubernetes-126-support-in-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-aks-service-mesh-addon-for-istio/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-long-term-support-version-in-aks/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/app-service-environment-v1-v2-retirement/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/unleash-the-power-of-apis-strategies-for-innovation/

Evan and Sujit talk to Ricardo Villarreal about the new ability to built network-aware applications in Azure. APC provides a unified abstraction layer for accessing network APIs—such as edge discovery, quality on demand, and device location—consistently across operators and connectivity methods. Ricardo offers compelling use-cases for these new APIs in Azure and tips to get started.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode456.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/2XWy2X0WXCQ

Resources:

https://aka.ms/apcblog

Other updates:

New Azure for Operators products and partner programs released | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: New enhanced connection troubleshoot | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Database connections support in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Performance Plus for Azure Disk Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General Availability: Performance workbooks for Azure PostgreSQL - Flexible Server | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: PgBouncer monitoring metrics for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server  | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In this episode we chat with Andrés Padilla and Meer Alam about practical use of AI and ML systems.  Examples of this are discussed around autonomous drone / delivery models and the various components in Azure that make this a seamless, scalable and sustainable experience.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode455.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/0Y_jeCWZn38

Resources:

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1569428314103514552-drone-express-travel-transportation-azure-en-united-states

https://github.com/Azure/KAN

Other updates:

Azure Disks Standard SSD billable transaction cap blog (microsoft.com)

Public preview: Login and TDE-enabled database migrations with Azure Database Migration Service | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General Availability: Customer Initiated Storage Account Conversion | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

ChatGPT is now available in Azure OpenAI Service | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure

Teams premium - conversation recap, chapters, etc.; Viva Sales, Bing Chat

Public preview: Azure Cognitive Service for Vision Powers State-of-the-Art Computer Vision Development | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Image captioning, customisation, improved learning, smaller datasets, higher quality.

Public preview: Illumio for Azure Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Zero Trust segmentation; single holistic view of traffic with real time visibility of interaction and dependencies; test firewall changes before deploying; across all 3 skus of firewall

Public Preview: Azure Monitor managed service for Prometheus now supports querying PromQL | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Use promql to define alerts to view in the portal

Generally available: App Insights Extension for Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Installs an agent to your VM through PS, triggered by the portal

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-to-showcase-purposebuilt-ai-infrastructure-at-nvidia-gtc/

Our guest this week, Paul Henwood joins Kendall and Russell to talk about many different aspects of sustainability, and how Azure embraces and supports customers with their sustainability goals.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode454.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/HSPeE6Hpmns

Sustainability Resources:

Microsoft Sustainability - Products for a Sustainable Future

What is Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability? | Microsoft Learn

Calculating My Carbon Footprint - Microsoft Sustainability

Sustainability workload documentation - Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework | Microsoft Learn

Green Software Foundation | GSF

Azure Update Links:

General availability: Azure Data Explorer Dashboards | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Azure Communication Services Chat for Bot Framework | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure SQL—General availability updates for mid-February 2023 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Backup: Enhanced experience for creating and managing private endpoints for Recovery Services vaults is now available | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Ryan Bostelmann joins the Azure Podcast team to share how the Azure Support function use Azure and Power Platform to be more efficient and deliver a better customer service.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Edpisode453.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/mIYTsy6jwVQ

Links:

• Power Apps: What is Power Apps? - Power Apps | Microsoft Learn
• Power Automate: Get Started with Power Automate
• Logic Apps: Overview - Azure Logic Apps
• Azure Functions: Azure Functions Overview
• Azure Pipelines: What are Azure Pipelines?
• Choose the right integration and automation services in Azure:

The team catches up with April Edwards to learn about the benefits of using Bicep to deploy Azure resources.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode452.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/FhniwXjDBe0

Resources: 

IaC Blog: Infrastructure as Code - comparing tools (microsoft.com)

MS Learn path for BIcep: Learn Live: Use Bicep to deploy your Azure infrastructure as code - Events | Microsoft Learn

Learn Live: Building your first Bicep Template: Learn Live - Build your first Bicep template - YouTube

Learn Live: Build Your First Bicep Deployment Workflow using GitHub Actions : Learn Live - Build your first Bicep deployment workflow by using GitHub Actions - YouTube

Other updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-automation-extension/

Public Preview: Azure Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/general-availability-of-azure-openai-service-expands-access-to-large-advanced-ai-models-with-added-enterprise-benefits

Public preview: Capture Event Hubs data with Stream Analytics no-code editor in Delta Lake format | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Jack Tracey, a Cloud Solutions Architect from the Customer Architecture and Engineering team talks to us about the work his team does to create the Landing Zones which can form the foundation for any well-designed Azure platform. He explains what they are and best practices to consume them in your cloud strategy.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode451.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/6Nfeaw9uELQ

Resources:

https://aka.ms/alz

https://aka.ms/alz/tailoring

https://aka.ms/alz/tf

https://aka.ms/alz/bicep

Other updates:

Private Preview: Featured Clothing | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: IT Service Management Connector (ITSMC) is now certified with ServiceNow Tokyo version | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Apache log4J2 sink to Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In an Azure Podcast team first, we all got together on Twitter Live Spaces, with a handful of live listeners to see how well this medium works.  

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode450.mp3 

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1SIRBCWR0YI

Public Preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate

Generally Available: Azure Functions support for Java 17

Generally Available: Durable Functions support for Java | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Improved geo-replication for Azure Cache for Redis | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

  ->speed, metrics, one-click failover, global cache URL

Learn how Microsoft datacenter operations prepare for energy issues

Microsoft Azure CLX: A personalized program to learn Azure

Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS

Public preview: Build a business case with Azure Migrate

Reza Rahman, a Principal Program Manager for Java on Azure, talks to us about the work his team has done to enable customers using legacy Java frameworks to easily migrate to Azure or modernize in a variety of ways.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode449.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/OqjDtcT6c9E

Resources:

https://speakerdeck.com/reza_rahman/why-jakarta-ee-developers-are-first-class-citizens-on-azure

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/developer/java/ee/

https://aka.ms/migration-survey

Other updates:

Public preview: Call automation capabilities for Azure Communication Services | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Improve speech-to-text accuracy with Azure Custom Speech

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/improve-speechtotext-accuracy-with-azure-custom-speech/

Microsoft and Isovalent partner to bring next generation eBPF dataplane for cloud-native applications in Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-and-isovalent-partner-to-bring-next-generation-ebpf-dataplane-for-cloudnative-applications-in-azure/

Microsoft Cost Management updates—November 2022

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-november-2022/

Free Services | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure SQL Trigger for Azure Functions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Sarah Novotny joins us on the show again, this time to tell us all about the collaboration that happens with Azure in Open Source Software.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode448.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/XwkyxBq0KL4

Resources: 

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2022/11/16/microsoft-contributes-s2c2f-to-openssf-to-improve-supply-chain-security/

https://github.com/microsoft/fluidframework

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/fluid-framework-is-now-open-source/

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2022/10/12/microsoft-365-at-ignite-re-energize-your-workforce-in-the-office-at-home-and-everywhere-in-between/?culture=en-us&country=US

https://microsoft.github.io/CBL-Mariner/docs/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/kubernetes-service/#overview

https://github.blog/2022-10-25-why-were-excited-about-the-sigstore-general-availability/

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/container-registry-tutorial-sign-build-push

Other updates:

Azure Resource Manager — Migrating to TLS 1.2 with Deprecation of Outdated Security Protocols | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Qualys SSL Labs - SSL Pulse

Public preview: Cross Subscription Restore for Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure Bastion now support shareable links | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Use Azure Quota Rest APIs to manage service limits (quotas) | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Sujit and Evan are joined by Amir Dahan, Senior Product Manager for Networking at Microsoft, to discuss Azure DDOS protection.

Media File: Episode447.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/B_TNr6c2F9o

Other Updates

• Use managed identities with Azure Front Door Standard/Premium (Preview) | Microsoft Learn
• Azure Machine Learning—Generally availability updates for November 2022 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure
• General availability: New cost recommendations for Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Networking Engineering Manager Abhishek Tiwari joins us once again, this time to talk about all of the work his team has done to add L7 and DDOS protection at the Edge and the enhancements in the DNS Service to make it more secure.

Media: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode446.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/yTtchBGLsKg

Other updates:

General availability: Default Rule Set 2.1 for Azure Web Application Firewall | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Multi-Factor Authentication Server will be deprecated 30 September 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure Automation supports Availability zones | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Static Web Apps support for preview environments in Azure DevOps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cynthia, Sujit and Russell discuss the SAP for Azure Land Zone Acclerator with Pankaj Meshram from the Microsoft Product team, and Matt Ely from Microsoft's Global Partner Solutions CSA team.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode445.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/m1FPIp0mWDo

SAP on Azure Landing Zone Resources:

SAP on Azure Deployment Automation Framework
SAP on Azure Landing Zone Accelerator
SAP Deployment Automation Framework

Other updates:

Public preview: Vertical Pod Autoscaler | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Mariner container optimized OS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: New Azure Maps Creator feature - Dataset with GeoJSON | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Logic Apps Standard Support for Functions Runtime V4 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: SAP S/4HANA events are now available on Azure Event Grid | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Azure Communication Services short code functionality for SMS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/sharing-the-latest-improvements-to-efficiency-in-microsoft-s-datacenters/

The team gets together with Mark Eisenberg, Cloud Solutions Architect and frequent guest on the podcast, to analyze the various Innovations in Azure that were announced my Mark Russinovich at the recent Ignite conference. The discussions range from data center hardware to quantum computing.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode444.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/8ycwq-PGl4g

Ignite session: Inside Azure Innovations with Mark Russinovich (microsoft.com)

Other updates:

Public preview: Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Image Analysis 4.0 with new API endpoint and OCR model in preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/image-analysis-40-with-new-api-endpoint-and-ocr-model-in-preview/

Azure Scales 530B Parameter GPT-3 Model with NVIDIA NeMo Megatron

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-scales-530b-parameter-gpt3-model-with-nvidia-nemo-megatron/

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team talks to Cesar De la Torre Llorente, a Principal Architect in the Azure team, about the new style of applications that leverage the 5G wireless network and are managed by Azure. This enables new scenarios running apps on factory floors, smart buildings, stadiums etc. and opens up new microservice style architectures that are all controlled via Azure.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode443.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/ghgionI4GZg

Resources: 

Link created especially for our Azure Podcast listeners https://aka.ms/AzurePodcast5G

Other updates:

Generally available: 5,000 node scale in AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Confidential VM option for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure Resource Topology | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Enable flow logging using Azure ExpressRoute Traffic Collector (Preview) | Microsoft Learn

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-storage-blog/azure-elastic-san-in-preview/ba-p/3643414

General availability: OpenTelemetry exporter for Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure savings plan for compute | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

In development: Introducing ExpressRoute Metro | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team catches up with Brian Lehr to take a look at the range of IP services available in Azure.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode442.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/weTl6r63qYo

Resources:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ip-services-overview (IP Services Overview)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/custom-ip-address-prefix (BYOIP)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/routing-preference-overview (Routing Preference)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/ipv6-overview (IPv6 Overview)

Other updates:

Generally available: Backup and restore updates for App Service | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Automatic backup for App Service Environment V2 and V3 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Smart tiering to vault-archive tier for Azure Backup | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Distributed PostgreSQL comes to Azure Cosmos DB - Azure Cosmos DB Blog (microsoft.com)

Public preview: Azure Resource Topology | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: New Azure Virtual Machine Scale Set and Spot Virtual Machines capabilities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team catches up with the developers of the Databricks Accelerator for Azure Purview to learn when, where, and why you might use it.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode441.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/W9Dyb6E5eKk

Resources:

The Databricks to Purview Solution Accelerator Repo: microsoft/Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator: A connector to ingest Azure Databricks lineage into Microsoft Purview (github.com)

Demo Deployment Quickstart: Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator/deploy-demo.md at release/2.1 · microsoft/Purview-ADB-Lineage-Solution-Accelerator (github.com)

YouTube Video overview: Demoing the Azure Databricks lineage solution accelerator in Microsoft Purview - YouTube

The OpenLineage Repo: OpenLineage/OpenLineage: An Open Standard for lineage metadata collection (github.com)

OpenLineage + Purview Blog: Microsoft Purview Accelerates Lineage Extraction from Azure Databricks | OpenLineage

Other updates:

The team catches up with Holger Bruchelt to get an update SAP and why we now say "SAP and Azure" and not "SAP on Azure"

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode440.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/T70PrDkSQvI

Resources:

https://microsoft.com/SAP - Overall picture at SAP on Azure

https://aka.ms/acss - This is THE central entry point for Azure Center for SAP Solutions

Overview and architecture of the SAP CDC capabilities (preview) - Azure Data Factory – this is the new SAP CDC Connector for ADF

https://youtube.com/SAPonAzure - our YouTube channel for SAP on Azure 

Other updates:

Public preview: Customer initiated storage account conversion | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Ignite - Oct 12-14th, UK will have some in person element in Manchester this year, and local events will also take place in France, Germany, Latin America, Japan and China;  Showcase of the latest innovations from Microsoft and partners.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-netapp-files-new-regions-and-crossregion-replication/

Netapp Files now available in Korea South, Sweden Central

Cross-region replication now in Korea Central/south, North Central US, East US 2, France Central and West Europe;

Backup feature in public preview now expanded to SE Asia, UK South

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-unmanaged-disks-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025/  Managed disks have now been available for several years (2017), and unmanaged discs are being retired - so you need to migrate before 30 sept 2025.  Advantages of managed discs include reliability, scalability, capacity, bursting, shared discs, etc.

Kendall and Sujit talk to Tom Kerkhove again, now a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure team and still the maintainer of KEDA. He gives us insights into the new API Management Self Hosted Gateway V2 option, which allows customers to host API Management capabilities in other clouds and on-premises with many more deployment options.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode439.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/qgtnKyIeyqU

Resources:

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/references/config

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/production-guidance

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/migration/v2

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/releases

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/registry-portal

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/helm

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/yaml

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/deploy/k8s/arc

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/samples/container-apps

https://aka.ms/apim/shgw/intro

https://aka.ms/apim/gateway-overview

Other updates:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-exchange-online

General availability: Standard network features for Azure NetApp Files | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Virtual datacenter tour | Azure global infrastructure experience (microsoft.com)

Generally available: Resizing of peered virtual networks | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

API Server VNet Integration in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Learn

Public preview: Operation abort | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team catches up with Aimee Littleton, PM on the Azure Networking team, to learn more about NAT Gateway and when customers should be using it. Short answer = whenever you have outbound network connectivity as part of your workload!

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode438.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/cmU5hNEISlg

Resources:

What is Azure Virtual Network NAT? | Microsoft Docs

Dive deep into NAT gateway’s SNAT port behavior | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure

Other Updates:

General availability: Azure Communication Services support for Teams identities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

James Tabor from the Azure CXP CRE (Customer Reliability Engineering) team shares how he improves team productivity by building Power Platform Apps and gives us tips and tricks to get us started on the same journey.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode437.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/_t6BIh-9vHI

Other Updates:

Public preview: Ephemeral OS disks supports host-based encryption using customer managed key | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Live resize for Premium SSD and Standard SSD Disk Storage | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Elevate your visualizations with Azure Managed Grafana—now generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/elevate-your-visualizations-with-azure-managed-grafana-now-generally-available/

Microsoft Cost Management updates – August 2022

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-management-updates-august-2022/

Azure private MEC—A thriving partner ecosystem

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-private-mec-a-thriving-partner-ecosystem/

Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm–based processors—generally available

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-virtual-machines-with-ampere-altra-arm-based-processors-generally-available/

Azure Cosmos DB integrated cache | Microsoft Docs

Public preview: App Configuration references for App Service and Azure Functions | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Azure Functions extension for Event Grid blob trigger | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team catches up with Byron Tardif from the App Services team to learn about App Services' migration to Kestrel+YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy)

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode436.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/OuPj4RAGDLQ

Resources:

A Heavy Lift: Bringing Kestrel + YARP to Azure App Services - .NET Blog (microsoft.com)

gRPC support on App Service now in Public Preview - Azure App Service

Submit App Services ideas at Web Apps · Community (azure.com)

The team catches up with Bill Paxson and Rob Futrick to learn about Azure HPC and the unique way in which the Microsoft Support team is supports HPC customers

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode435.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1y1iDUvx75A

Resources:

High-performance computing (HPC) on Azure - Azure Architecture Center | Microsoft Docs

High Performance Computing – HPC | Microsoft Azure

• Free MS Learn modules covering many HPC AI topics, from intro to HPC to advanced optimization: Run high-performance computing (HPC) applications on Azure - Learn | Microsoft Docs
• Overview from HPC AI Day conference earlier this year: (101) Azure HPC+AI Day: HPC + AI software - YouTube
• Great overview of the entire HPC platform, including CPU + GPU hardware, HPC Storage considerations + options, etc.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U54kF0EZ9DM
• Azure CycleCloud specifically:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyrsXUwm0vA. It has a live demo 19 minutes in.

Other updates:

Monday, August 15, 2022

9:00 PM

Use Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver for Azure Blob storage on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) - Azure Kubernetes Service | Microsoft Docs

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-data-explorer-log-and-telemetry-analytics-benchmark/

Announcing Microsoft Dev Box Preview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-dev-box-preview/

Evan and Cynthia speak with Abhishek Tiwari, Director of Software Engineering about the diverse types of situations traffic manager can be used in, how Microsoft has built a service to support 100% SLA, and how traffic manager can even be leveraged as part of a cloud modernization effort in a hybrid scenario. 

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode434.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/NhuJlK_vOEs

Resources:

What is Traffic Manager?

How Traffic Manager Works

Traffic Manager routing methods

Updates:

Review and remove AAD inactive users in Public Preview

Public preview: Azure Dedicated Host restart

General availability: Azure App Service Environment v3 support for custom domain suffix

Evan and Sujit discuss one of the earliest, yet least talked-about services in Azure, the Relay Service. They discuss how it works and the place it can play in various application deployment scenarios.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode433.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/hCR-BY8hf7E

Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-relay/relay-what-is-it

Samples: https://github.com/Azure/azure-relay/tree/master/samples/hybrid-connections

Other Updates: 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/new-kms-dns-in-azure-global-cloud/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-public-ipv6-offerings-are-free-as-of-july-31/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-firewall-premium-is-now-icsa-labs-certified/

Cale and Sujit discuss the little-known. but very important App Config Service which simplifies configurations for all applications on Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode432.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/P6QsUY0zdQQ

Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-app-configuration/overview

Other updates:

Azure empowers easy-to-use, high-performance, and hyperscale model training using DeepSpeed

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-empowers-easytouse-highperformance-and-hyperscale-model-training-using-deepspeed/

Microsoft Cost Details API now generally available for EA and MCA customers

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-cost-details-api-now-generally-available-for-ea-and-mca-customers/

Azure Confidential Ledger goes GA

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-confidential-ledger/#overview

Satya announced the general availability of Azure confidential ledger at INSPIRE

We chat with Nir Mashkowski, Principal PM Manager, about the evolution of PaaS since its inception 10+ years ago, some of the usage patterns that he has observed, the benefits and reasoning of using PaaS services, and the future of where Azure PaaS services is headed. 

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode431.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/b3zUtaCnhTE

Resources:

Overview - Azure App Service | Microsoft Docs

Azure Functions Overview | Microsoft Docs

What is Azure Static Web Apps? | Microsoft Docs

Azure Container Apps documentation | Microsoft Docs

Dapr - Distributed Application Runtime

KEDA | Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling

Azure FastTrack Engineers John Downs and Arsen Vladimirskiy explain how multi-tenant architectures can be deployed on Azure. They talk about the various factors that should be considered when designing these types of applications.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode430.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/r4pePMf_Y28

Resources: 

https://aka.ms/multitenancy

https://aka.ms/multitenancy/live

https://aka.ms/multitenancy/feedback

Other Updates:

Generally available: HTTP proxy support for AKS clusters | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Custom certificate authorities | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: New API backend options in Azure Static Web Apps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Improved Try Azure Cosmos DB for free experience | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Create an additional 5000 Azure Storage accounts within your subscription | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Cale and Cynthia chat with Manju Ramanathpura about the Azure Native ISV program, the customer experience, the background of the initiative and the investments that are made to streamline various products that developers are using onto Azure.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode429.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DEjJ6DJDjBc

Resources:

Extend Azure with solutions from partners

Updates:

Public preview: AKS release tracker

Threat detection in airports, railways, and retail with Azure Percept

NYC NFT Conference

Infura NFT Service

General availability: Azure Key Vault secrets provider on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

Azure Orbital Ground Station as Service extends life and reduces costs for satellite operators

Our resident expert on all things Java on Azure, Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, gives us all the latest updates on running your Java workloads on various Azure services. He also dives into the newly renamed Azure Spring Apps service which now has more SKUs to address various use-cases.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode428.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/PaMaWij21N0

Resources:

Start Enterprise - https://aka.ms/spring-apps-Enterprise
Develop your first Spring Boot app - https://aka.ms/Start-Spring
Learn using a self-paced workshop - https://aka.ms/Learn-Spring
Watch bite-size demos - https://aka.ms/Spring-Playlist
Leverage best practices - https://aka.ms/Spring-Boot
Build and deploy Java apps on Azure - https://aka.ms/LearnJava
Interact with Azure services using Spring - https://aka.ms/Spring-Cloud-Azure

Technical Case Stories
FedEx - https://aka.ms/FedEx
National Life Group - https://aka.ms/National-Life
Digital Realty Trust - https://aka.ms/DLR
Swiss Re - https://aka.ms/Swiss-Re
Raley's - https://aka.ms/Raley'
Liantis - https://aka.ms/Liantis
Kroger - https://aka.ms/Kroger-on-Azure
Morgan Stanley - https://aka.ms/Morgan-Stanley
Bosch - https://aka.ms/Bosch.IO

Other Updates:

See how 3 industry-leading companies are driving innovation in a new episode of Inside Azure for IT

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/see-how-3-industryleading-companies-are-driving-innovation-in-a-new-episode-of-inside-azure-for-it/

Responsible AI investments and safeguards for facial recognition

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/responsible-ai-investments-and-safeguards-for-facial-recognition/

Azure IoT increases enterprise-level intelligent edge and cloud capabilities

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-iot-increases-enterpriselevel-intelligent-edge-and-cloud-capabilities/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-databricks-available-in-new-regions/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-azure-sdk-for-go/

Various Load Testing updates:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-splitting-input-data-across-test-engines/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-user-specified-jmeter-properties/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-customermanaged-keys/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-support-for-userassigned-managed-identities/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-load-testing-supports-quick-start-tests-with-web-url/

General availability: Azure Data Explorer connector for Power Automate, Logic Apps, and Power Apps

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/power-platform-connector-ga/

The team catches up with Sarah Novotny and Xin Liu to learn about both the network switch SONiC and why Microsoft recently transferred control of it to the Linux Foundation.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode427.mp3

 YouTube: https://youtu.be/hmyz4Qpp9e4

Resources:

Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) Moves to the Linux Foundation

GitHub Repo

Quick Start

Updates:

General availability: Updates for resource configuration changes 

Public preview: Network Watcher packet capture support for virtual machine scale sets

Public preview: Azure Arc-enabled System Center Virtual Machine Manager

Public preview: Private link support in Azure Application Gateway

Preview of Windows Admin Center for Azure Arc-enabled infrastructure - Microsoft Windows Server Blog

Audrey Long, a Senior Security Software Engineer in Commercial Software Engineering at Microsoft, discusses the Defender for the Cloud service. She explains how the service plays an important part in securing our assets and apps in Azure and other clouds as well. 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode426.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/w5wG6Bf2aQY

Resources: 

Overview: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/defender-for-cloud-introduction

• Microsoft Defender for Servers
• Microsoft Defender for Storage
• Microsoft Defender for SQL
• Microsoft Defender for Containers
• Microsoft Defender for App Service
• Microsoft Defender for Key Vault
• Microsoft Defender for Resource Manager
• Microsoft Defender for DNS
• Microsoft Defender for open-source relational databases
• Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB (Preview)
• Microsoft Defender for IoT https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/iot-defender/#overview

Other updates:

General availability: Storage optimized Azure VMs deliver higher performance for data analytics. | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Generally available: Azure NC A100 v4 virtual machines for AI | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: New portal experience for Microsoft Artifact Registry | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Start skilling on Azure with these helpful guides

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/start-skilling-on-azure-with-these-helpful-guides/

Find out why your SQL Server data belongs on Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/find-out-why-your-sql-server-data-belongs-on-azure/

Special guest Mark Eisenberg (Senior CSAM at Microsoft), co-hosts with Kendall, Evan and Sujit on this special edition of the Podcast to offer his insights into the various Azure announcements at BUILD 2022.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode425.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/1xoGKpDyRxs

Resources: https://news.microsoft.com/build-2022-book-of-news/

Our very own Cynthia Kreng, who is a PM in the Worldwide Customer Success Unit focused on Developer acceleration, talks to us about one their first offerings in API Management.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode424.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/UusIj1ikvLM

Resources:

Repo: https://aka.ms/EnterpriseScale-APIM

Docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/scenarios/app-platform/api-management/landing-zone-accelerator

Other resources:

Manage Red Hat workloads seamlessly on Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-red-hat-workloads-seamlessly-on-azure/

Accelerating innovation in the diabetic foot market with Azure Health Data Services

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/accelerating-innovation-in-the-diabetic-foot-market-with-azure-health-data-services/

Join us and the developer community to celebrate Azure Static Web Apps

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/join-us-and-the-developer-community-to-celebrate-azure-static-web-apps/

Microsoft Build 5/24-5/26

https://mybuild.microsoft.com/

Kyle Teegarden, a Senior PM in the DevDiv group, gets us re-acquainted with the Redis offering on Azure and discusses all the latest features including the Enterprise tier.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode423.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/xKA-w7Icn00

Resources:

Azure Cache for Redis | Microsoft Azure

How to Improve Your Azure SQL Performance by up to 800% - Microsoft Tech Community

Cache-Aside pattern - Azure Architecture Center

Implement Redis Pub/Sub and Streams in Azure Cache for Redis - Learn

Optimize your web applications by caching read-only data with Redis - Learn 

Quickstart: Use Azure Cache for Redis in .NET Core

Updates:

Generally available: Node pool snapshot

Generally available: Scale-down mode in AKS

Public preview: Static Web Apps now supports Gitlab and Bitbucket for CI/CD

Public preview: Azure Storage as share in Windows Code in App Service 

Intelligent application protection from edge to cloud with Azure Web Application Firewall

Customize your secure VM session experience with native client support on Azure Bastion

Thomas Stringer is a Software Engineering Lead in the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft and he gives us insights into the OSM add-on for AKS and tells us why that makes applications on AKS so much more secure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode422.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/DICsJmFSGCs

Resources: https://openservicemesh.io/

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (cncf.io)

Other updates:

General availability: App Service - Networking capabilities added to Basic pricing tier | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: App Service - Configure networking in Azure Portal during app creation | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

The team talks with Pujitha and Sidhanshu about Project Flash, an initiative to improve VM availability monitoring that allows for immediate actions and trend analysis at scale.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode421.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7vXz-tjQAA

Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-azure-virtual-machine-availability-monitoring-with-project-flash/ 

https://aka.ms/flashblog

Other updates:

Public preview: Azure SQL Database Hyperscale reverse migration to general purpose tier 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-sql-database-hyperscale-reverse-migration-to-general-purpose-tier/

General availability: Zone redundancy for Azure SQL Database general purpose tier

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-zone-redundancy-for-azure-sql-database-general-purpose-tier/

Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-purview-is-now-microsoft-purview/

Getting rid of credentials in Azure (multi-part)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/getting-rid-of-credentials-in-azure-part-1/ba-p/3265205

Azure SQL—Public preview updates for mid-April 2022 

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-sql-public-preview-updates-for-midapril-2022/

Generally available: IBM WebSphere on Azure with evaluation licensing

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/generally-available-ibm-websphere-on-azure-with-evaluation-licensing/

Microsoft MVP, Director of Solution Architecture at WTW and all things Azure expert, Sam Cogan, joins us for an in-depth discussion on Infrastructure as Code. He shares his views and give us valuable tips for having a good IaC strategy.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode420.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/PlfAS6eUfzE

Blog: https://samcogan.com

Other updates:

Generally available: Azure storage table access using Azure Active Directory | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft is announcing the general availability of the Ebs/Ebds v5 memory optimized Azure VM series, that deliver up to 300% increase in remote storage performance compared to prior generation VMs.

Generally available: Azure Data Explorer Inline script deployment with ARM Template | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure Data Explorer supports Azure private endpoints | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

No need to expose public endpoints or expose data over public internet to enable access from ADX clusters.

Update: Azure AD Graph retirement date | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Extended retirement to move to Microsoft Graph - now 31 Dec 2022 (was 30 June 22).  Feature updates are going into MS Graph, not AD Graph

General availability: Azure Backup now supports vault-archive tier for Azure VMs | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

More GB but cheaper overall, using vault-archive instead of vault-standard

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-future-is-on-fhir-for-sas-and-microsoft-azure/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-metrics-and-alerts-support-in-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-health-probes-support-in-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-visual-studio-support-for-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-visual-studio-code-extension-for-azure-container-apps/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-managed-identities-support-in-azure-container-apps/

We are fortunate to have Abhishek Tiwari, from the Azure Networking team, join us again on the podcast, this time to discuss the Front Door service.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode419.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/QrNMpugD4zA

Resources:

Front Door Announcement

Updates:

General availability: Bring your own IP ranges to Azure

Public preview: Simplified compute node communication

Public preview: Azure Bastion support for Kerberos authentication

Public preview: Azure Arc integration with VMware vSphere and Azure VMware Solution

Public preview: Azure Cosmos DB partition key advisor notebook

Join us at the Innovate for Impact digital event

We have a wonderful discussion with David Starr, a Principal Software Engineer from the Commercial Marketplace Services team (and fellow hoster of his own Podcast) to talk about the services available to ISVs and customers to get their cloud applications and solutions visibility via the Azure Marketplace so then can monetize them. We discuss Azure Managed Apps, App Source and various technical and business details around these services.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode418.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Gu8N0sjnkLA

Resources:

Azure Marketplace - https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/

AppSource - https://appsource.microsoft.com/

Mastering the Marketplace technical learning library - https://aka.ms/MasteringTheMarketplace

Azure for Executives podcast - https://aka.ms/AzureForExec

Get started here - https://partner.microsoft.com

Other updates:

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/app-service-environment-v1-and-v2-retirement-announcement/

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-ondemand-capacity-reservations/

Diversifying the telecommunications supply chain with Open RAN

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/diversifying-the-telecommunications-supply-chain-with-open-ran/

Accelerate silicon design innovation on Azure with Synopsys Cloud

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/accelerate-silicon-design-innovation-on-azure-with-synopsys-cloud/

Introducing the new Azure Front Door: Reimagined for modern apps and content

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-new-azure-front-door-reimagined-for-modern-apps-and-content/

Public preview: Azure dedicated host support in AKS

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-dedicated-host-support-in-aks/

Yun Jung Choi, a PM in the Azure team, give us details about a valuable feature of the popular App Service, that allows customers to perform a variety of advanced troubleshooting tasks right within the Azure Portal.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode417.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/A8IB5A2YWFI

Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/overview-diagnostics

Other updates:

Manage port forwarding for backend pool with Azure Load Balancer

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-port-forwarding-for-backend-pool-with-azure-load-balancer/

5 reasons to attend the Modernize and Migrate with Hybrid Cloud Flexibility digital event

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/5-reasons-to-attend-the-modernize-and-migrate-with-hybrid-cloud-flexibility-digital-event/

Accelerate graphics-heavy workloads using NVads A10 v5 Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/accelerate-graphicsheavy-workloads-using-nvads-a10-v5-azure/

Azure confidential computing with NVIDIA GPUs for trustworthy AI

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-confidential-computing-with-nvidia-gpus-for-trustworthy-ai/

Public preview: Azure Container Registry on Azure Stack Hub | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/we-ll-retire-azure-time-series-insights-on-31-of-march-2025/

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/netcore31/

Azure QnA Maker will be retired on 31 March 2025

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-qna-maker-will-be-retired-on-31-march-2025/

Amber Zhao and Karen Ekberg from the Azure FastTrack team dive into the role Azure Purview plays in managing the data estate of a customer.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode416.mp3
YouTube: Episode 416 - Azure Purview - YouTube

Resources:

What is Azure Purview?

FastTrack for Azure Live

FastTrack for Azure

Updates:

Public preview: Azure Private Link support in Azure API Management

Generally available: Best practices assessment for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines

Learn how Microsoft Circular Centers are scaling cloud supply chain sustainability

Microsoft launches Azure Health Data Services to unify health data and power AI in the cloud

Scaling cloud solutions to new heights with Microsoft’s partner ecosystem

Things fall into place on ‘Domino Masters,’ as these Seattle geeks test engineering skills on reality TV

Public preview: Azure App Configuration soft delete capability

General availability: New extensions for Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Flexible Server

The team speaks with Kathleen Mitford, CVP of Azure Marketing, as a celebration for International Women's Day. Kathleen shared her new stay at home habits, thoughts on the evolution of women in tech, family life, career journey, and vision for where she sees Azure going with the rise of Digital Natives.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode415.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/a-WSdcmSl8Y

The team catches up with Abhishek Tiwari to talk about the past, present, and future of Azure DNS.

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Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode414.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/lHHwNJEVEas

Other updates:

The new and better ‘WordPress on App Service’ - Microsoft Tech Community 

Public preview: Azure NetApp Files - application consistent snapshot tool v5.1 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: SKU recommendation in Azure SQL Migration extension - Azure Data Studio | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure - an extension for Azure Data Studio

General availability: Azure Red Hat OpenShift support for OpenShift 4.9 | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure 

Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect Stephen Kaufman gives us valuable insights into the considerations for making applications 'Cloud Native' when hosting them on Azure. 

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode413.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/6xUmrgL1dNM

Resources:

CNCF Cloud Native Interactive Landscape

Link to the CNCF Trail map

Other updates:

Public preview: Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-spring-cloud-enterprise/

Public preview: WordPress enhancements for App Service

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-wordpress-enhancements-for-app-service/

Generally available: Direct enterprise agreement on Azure Cost Management and Billing

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/ea-azure-billing-experience-on-cost-management-and-billing-3/

The team catches up with Prabhat Tripathi and Sunil Agarwal to learn all about Azure Database for Postgres and that service's Flexible Server SKU that recently went generally available.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode412.mp3

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXThfIGE9dg

Resources:

Comparison chart - Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server and Flexible Server

Introducing Flexible Server for Azure Database for PostgreSQL

What is Flexible Server in Azure Database for PostgreSQL?

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server is now GA!

Updates:

MS Linux on Azure

Public preview: Azure Tables extension for Azure Functions

Microsoft Azure’s first Azure HPC + AI Day

Advancing Azure Virtual Machine availability monitoring with Project Flash

Generally available: Virtual Machine level disk bursting supports additional VM types 

Public preview: Azure Monitor predictive autoscale for Azure virtual machine scale sets

Cloud Solution Architects Suhas Rao and Graeme Foster have implemented several Event Driven Architectures on Azure. They talk to Cynthia and Sujit about why customers are looking at these application patterns and provide valuable insights into implementing them on Azure.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode411.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/tbNqKLhKisY

Resources:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/event-sourcing

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/reference-architectures/saga/saga

https://vasters.com/archive/Sagas.html

https://developer.lightbend.com/docs/akka-platform-guide/concepts/message-driven-event-driven.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKCRSUsyP0&t=299s

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-grid/compare-messaging-services

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iuMjjKQnhg

https://yourazurecoach.com/2021/08/11/azure-service-bus-vs-event-grid/

https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3867165/top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2018-event-driven0

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/retry-service-specific

Other updates:

General availability: Deployment enhancements for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Anomaly Detector adds synchronous multivariate detection and improved anomaly interpretation | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure Bastion now supports file transfer via the native client | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Private preview: AKS cluster persistent volume backup | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

General availability: Azure Cache for Redis active geo-replication in enterprise tiers | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Rita and Linda speak with the team about what Fusion Dev is, how we can empower more developers, and how professional developers can leverage the Power Platform to make their lives easier.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode410.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/5sSTQqR-kS0

Resources:
Ebook: Fusion development approach to building apps using Power Apps

An Illustrated Guide to Fusion Development

Transform your business applications with fusion development

April's YouTube Channel

Updates:

Public Preview: Microsoft Azure Payment HSM Service

Generally available: PowerShell on Linux OS in Azure Functions

Public preview: Custom virtual network support in Azure Container Apps

Xin Shi, an Azure PM focused on the Developer Experience, tells us about the Service Connector service in Azure which makes is easy for developers to ensure apps have all the right connectivity and security in place to access their Azure resources.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode409.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/odJubQN6SJ8

Resources: https://aka.ms/service-connector

Other updates:

http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-azure-static-web-apps-enterprisegrade-edge/

General availability: Ultra disks support on AKS | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public Preview: Managed Certificate support for Azure API Management | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure DDoS Protection—2021 Q3 and Q4 DDoS attack trends

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-ddos-protection-2021-q3-and-q4-ddos-attack-trends/

Rightsize to maximize your cloud investment with Microsoft Azure

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/rightsize-to-maximize-your-cloud-investment-with-microsoft-azure/

7 reasons to attend Azure Open Source Day

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/7-reasons-to-attend-azure-open-source-day/

Generally available: Kibana dashboards and visualizations on top of Azure Data Explorer | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Support for managed identity in Azure Cache for Redis | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Hosted by Arsen Vladimirskiy, the team talks to Azure PM John Stallo about the new Azure Load Testing service. John explains the history behind the service and how it simplifies and democratizes load testing such that it can be part of any software development lifecycle.

Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode408.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/hyDM_z8aNX0

Resources:

Azure Load Testing Documentation

Submit issues for Azure Load Testing

Updates:

Azure Traffic Manager: Additional IP addresses for endpoint monitoring service.

General availability: Microsoft Defender for Cloud updates for December 2021

Public preview: Semantic Search update

Azure Backup - Automation updates - 2021

Our very own Kendall Roden and Daria Grigoriu, both PMs in the Azure team, talk to us about the brand-new Azure Container Apps service. They explain the service in detail and discuss typical use-cases for using it.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode407.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/LKXu2ZHvHIE

Resources: Azure Container Apps | Microsoft Azure

The team talks to Azure PMs Isabelle Morris and Tanu Balla about the Bastion service which allows for secure access to VMs. We discuss the use-cases for this service, and they provide insights into using it effectively.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode406.mp3

YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ssr7z1imDkk

Resources: Azure Bastion | Microsoft Docs

Other Updates:

Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault is now in public preview | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Public preview: Azure Kubernetes Service configuration management with GitOps | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure

Azure Storage: Attribute-based Access Control (ABAC) conditions with principal attributes now in public preview | Azure updates | Microsoft Azure